I've created patch that adds real LPCM support for audio transcoding (LPCM != WAV). At this moment PS3MS can transcode to MP3 and lossless WAV. Internet radios can be transcoded to WAV only.Because LPCM is more generic than WAV (is required by DLNA standard) it should be default for audio transcoding. For non DLNA renderes, that supports WAV, not LPCM TranscodeAudio=WAVcould be set.

Thanks for patch and information. Found this thread trying setting FLAC playback on Bravia CX520 TV (Latest PMS 1.40b2). None of the other suggestions help, but modifying BraviaEX.conf as described in patch helped me:

Also, for correct stereo FLAC audio playback need to switch to FFmpeg audio engine instead of MPlayer audio (move it up in PMS preferences). With MPlayer Audio I have "digital noise" instead of actual audio. Both MPlayer Audio and MPlayer Web generate digital noise instead of actual sound for audio streams (FLAC / any audio WEB streams like Engadget Podcast). I think it related to transcode command line options for them (http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... ail?id=457)

MPlayer seems to procude valid LPCM with additional command line option "-format s16be" and nowaveheader. I locally changed MPlayerAudio.java accordingly and now my BRAVIA is able to playback wma files transcoded to LPCM by MPlayer.

Now I have working FLAC playback. I think we have old BraviaEX.conf in stock PMS 1.40.b2, and it need to be modified in that way to support FLAC audio playback. FLAC audio playback doesn't work for me from PMS 1.30.0 till 1.40.b2 with BraviaEX.conf, now its OK!

Also, I can play FLAC or any WEB audio streams with TranscodeAudio=MP3. In that case they all appear as MP3 on my TV and no sound issues at all.